Cheap Corals in Sherwood Park
 

I was just in to the Family Pet Center in Sherwood Park and they have a number of corals very resonably priced.

THere are some really nice long tentacle plate corals that are bright green for $26.00 and there are a few other nicer looking corals in the $26 - $40 range.

Just thought I would pass this allong

Joel

Hi Joel,

Always good to have great deals out there!

One thing that I think worthy of mentioning is that Plate Corals and many fungia, do not have a great survival rate in the home aquarium. I had one for a while that I loved but did not research in advance. I lost it of course due mostly to my own stupidity, it was afterwards in my reading in many books, searching threads, etc that I found out that most plates are better off left in the wild.

Too bad though, they are beautiful.

Best,

Rob

Plate Corals
 

I had a butiful mutant plate coral that was actualy 2 corals grown together in to one (realy amazing)

It lived for almost 2 years quite happely in my tank and the only reason that i lost it was that my golden headed gobie decided to burry it for a week while I was on holidays.

What I found was the trick for keeping them healthy is to feed them directly once or twice a week. I would put a full piece of Krill by its mouth and it would pull it in and eat it (realy cool to watch) or suck some brine shrimp up in to a syringe and gently blow it at it's mouth.

Incidentaly a really awesome feeder can be made using a 1ft piece of rigid airline tubing, a 1 ft piece of silicone airline tubing and a large 40cc srynge.
you can suck up the food and direct it where you want.

At first it didn't seem to happy in my tank but when I started feeding it it seemed quite happy.

well that's my 0.02

Joel

Man I can't wait to get my big tank up and running :)
Playing in a 20 gal just isn't as much fun lol

Had my short tentacle fungia for over a year before I had to sell it. Mak's got it now and it looked great the last time I saw it. I see a long life ahead for this guy.

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Thanks guys good to know that others have had success! Mine was one of the fluo green plates, I wonder if that makes a difference?

My wife and I would really like to get another one now that we have more experience and have done our research. We'll see...

Rob

Yeah, this Plate is doing awesome. No problems what so ever. On the other hand about 2 years ago I bought one of the Long Tenticled Plates and it did awesome for about 3-4 days then it just died. All water perimeters were all well within range. I won't touch the Long tenticles again.